MICAELA LEON has a breadth of experience as a singer and actress having performed opera, musical theatre, cabaret, classical theatre, and contemporary music. Early on she gained experience by performing with greats such as Placido Domingo, Margit Carstensen, Philip Glass and Carlos Saura. She studied at Hochschule für Musik, Dresden and Trinity College of Music, London, and also at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and with Jude Alderson in London. She was also a member of Alderson's London Amazonia Music Theatre Company. Leon is a NY Nightlife Award finalist and was nominated as outstanding Debut Female Artist at the Manhattan Association of Cabaret Awards.

In NYC, Leon has performed at Café Sabarsky at Neue Galerie, The Metropolitan Room, Iridium Jazz Club, Le Poisson Rouge, Spiegeltent, Gotham Comedy Club, and the legendary Don’t Tell Mama among others. She is a member of the Kabarett Kollektiv NYC and has performed to packed houses in London’s former legendary Pizza on the Park, the Edinburgh Festival, and the Pantheon Theater in Bonn, Germany to name a few.

Her commitment to preserving and passing on the memories of the German atrocities during the Third Reich, and the celebration of German-Jewish culture has led her to various projects and concerts with the Jewish Music Institute London, the UK Holocaust Memorial Day in London, NS-Dokumentationzentrum Munich, and the Leo Baeck Institute New York.